The London Wool Market
Messrs, Balms and Co.'s wool circular states that there is a fair prospect of wool values being maintained. In their circular Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co, state that a further expansion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1896
533 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 27
Butter Washing
Certain butter makers declare against washing butter, claiming that it injures the flavour. No doubt it does take out some of the buttermilk flavour, which is liked very…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →How to Preserve Butter
Want to know bow to preserve butter? Read what the London Queen says: Buy say thirty pounds of good, fresh butter, put into a marmite or large pot, and place it over the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Farm & Garden. Treatment of Horses
No horse was ever born with blinders on. These are imposed upon him with the rest of the harness. They are intended to prevent side and rear view, but they do not always…
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A great improvement has been effected in connection with the Farmers Union in the shape of a butter room, by which, even during the terrible heat of yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Improvements at the Cattle Yards
This afternoon the Fat Stock Salesmen's Association waited on the Mayor and asked for improvements to be made at Flemington and Comperdown sale yards. They suggested that Flemington dues…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interesting Dairying Records
Mr. F. J. Stansmore, of Wangrabell Farm, near Warrambool, who owns a dairy of 70 cows, adopts the practice of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Live Cattle Trade
The steamer Yarrawonga, which left Sydney on 9th November, has arrived. She landed 290 head of cattle. The Yarrawonga's sheep are in excellent condition, and are expected to realize about 38s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Condemned Cattle Question
A deputation of fat stock buyers was introduced to the Premier en Wednesday by Mr. Hogue, M.P., who explained that the chief grievance was a certain proportion of the beasts killed at Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Goat As a Dairy Animal
We learn from the report of the London Dairy show, which appeared in the Live Stock Journal, that the goat classes still continue to be a great attraction. The prizes offered and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Sunflower Crop
The despised sunflower promises to be a paying crop in the country (says an American exchange), especially in States where it thrives naturally. In Russia and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Farm & garden. Spray Mixtures and Spraying
Clay-lime-sulphur paint (the composition of which has been frequently described in Rural Australian) for insect and fungus killing during the winter season, and Bordeaux…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The London Wool Sales
The prospects for the next series of London wool sales are good. Twelve hundred bales have been sold privately at an advance of ¼d upon the December closing rates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soiling in the Dairy
The value and economy of forage crops is becoming better understood by dairymen each year. Large, rolling and rocky pastures do not favor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cooling Butter
An admirable butter-coooling room has been for some time in use nt Messrs Graingor and Falkiner's Union. The chamber is a capacious one with a double…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market
The wool sales opened very firm to-day and show an upward tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salvation Army Farm
THE Salvation Army have secured 1200 acres of land at Narrabeen, near Manly, and have established upon it a farm in connection with their work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales. London, Jan, 15
Messrs. Balme and Co., Jacomb, Son and Co., and Buxton, Ronald, and Co., offered a catalogue of 6271 bales, the wools being of the poorest selection. There was a large attendance of buyers, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Taxation Act and the Wool Trade
A large deputation from the Sydney wool-selling brokers waited upon the Premier to-day to ask whether the operations of Clause 12 of the new Taxation Act was to be construed in such a manner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales
At the wool sales to-day competition was spirited in all classes, especially for best sorts. Among the prices realised were the following:—Hummock's LGB, 8½d; Yongala, 7[?]d; AM, 9½d; Goonambil…
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